Ernest

Hemingway

1899
-
1961

BY: REBECCA LONG

 IMPORTANT DATES
Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in
Cicero Illinois.
In 1918 Hemingway becomes an
ERNEST HEMINGWAY ambulance driver at the Italy front during
WW1

His Life
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I
know." - Ernest Hemingway
"The world breaks everyone, and afterword, many
September 3, 1921 Hemingways marries
Hadley Richardson his first of four wives.
October 10, 1923 Hadley Nicanor
Hemingway, the first of Hemingway's
three sons is born.
In 1954, while in Africa, Hemingway is
severely injured in two successive plane
crashes.
In July of 1961 Hemingway commits
suicide

are strong at the broken places." - Ernest

BIG HISTORICAL
Hemingway
EVENTS

WW1
July 28, 1914 –
November 11, 1918

Spanish Civil War

A DEEPER LOOK July 17, 1936 – April 1,
1939

WW2
September 1, 1939 –
September 2, 1945
 IMPORTANT DATES
Hemingway's first book, Three Stories
and Ten Poems, was published in 1923.
Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1954

His Writing
Hemingway's last book, The Dangerous
Summer was published posthumously
over 20 years after it was written.

IMPORTANT INFLUENCES
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had Mark Twain
really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel Gertrude Stein
F. Scott Fitzgerald
that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you:
James Joyce
the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the
people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so
that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”― Ernest
MOST PROMINENT
Hemingway WORKS

THE OLD MAN AND

THE SEA

1952 - Novel

A DEEPER LOOK

THE SUN ALSO RISES

1926 - Novel
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY

His Legacy
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the
details of how he lived and how he died that
distinguish one man from another." - Ernest
Hemingway

MOST PROMINENT
WORKS

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

1929 - Novel

A DEEPER LOOK

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HILLS LIKE WHITE

ELEPHANTS

1927 - Short Story